Why, Sesame Street? Why? After longtime staffer Mark Saltzman told Queerty that he’d always written Bert and Ernie as gay, the venerable educational show for kids didn’t respond, “Of course they’re a ...

Bert and Ernie are not gay. That I even have to say this is the problem, not the actual fact that they aren’t. This week, long-time Sesame Street writer Mark Saltzman revealed that he wrote Bert and ...

So when Mark Saltzman, a writer who worked on Bert and Ernie for years, told Queerty this week they're gay, no one was really surprised. If anything, people were elated the truth was finally confirmed ...

(CBS Local/CBSLA) — A former "Sesame Street" writer has revealed that Bert and Ernie are gay. Mark Saltzman, who wrote scripts and songs on "Sesame Street" for 15 years beginning in 1984, told Queerty ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I remember one time that a column from The San Francisco Chronicle, a preschooler in the city ...

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Will the Children's Television Workshop give way to same-sex puppet love? An online campaign is calling for the producers of TV's "Sesame Street" to allow characters Bert and Ernie ...